Karl Lang, assistant professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech, joined FOX Weather to discuss what is driving the Nepal disaster, the risks posed by glacial lake outburst floods, and the long-term challenges communities face.

Instructors say open-ended student comments are the most valuable kind of course feedback. But reading through hundreds or thousands of such comments is time-consuming, so the insights often go unused. Georgia Tech researchers have developed an AI platform that sorts written feedback into themes, with student comments aggregated. Next steps include deploying the platform as a secure cloud service; connecting it to campus systems that manage teaching and learning; and running a pilot at Georgia Tech. • Georgia Tech lab of Gregory Mayer

A new study by Professor Francesca Storici’s research team along with collaborators at multiple institutions has uncovered an unexpected feature of human DNA linked to gene activity and the physical organization of DNA. The findings, published in Cell, could change how scientists think about DNA organization, transcription, and genome function.